China Life will pay for living expenses of all earthquake orphans

[james_bond_3rd]

Quote from mschey:

At this point, you are just being silly, arguing for arguments sake.

Comparing a 1955 event to todays is silly too. Things have changed dramatically since then including a dramatic change in the speed at which communications take place and the fact that aid and workers can be on scene, nearly anywhere in the world, in 24 hours.

There is a difference between Reporters and Aid workers, isn't there?

Perhaps you should Tune to something else other then NPR and you might get the rest of the story.

Let's agree to this, you love china, I havn't forgotten the Chosen Reservoir and the fact the US forces had to push the NK and chinsese supported communists back across the 38th paralell!

It's clear now that you don't even read and you don't follow news either. I was using NPR to show you that their movement in China was not restricted. If you were reading any of the news report about the China earthquake, you would know that the disaster area at the moment has no communication except through sattelite phones (but then there is no electricity), and most of the roads were destroyed by landslide, most of the bridges had collapsed. You may be able to get to Chengdu in 24 hours. But once you're there, what do you do? Stay in the hotel and bide your time? Or demand Chinese soldiers to escort you to the disaster area? You don't know their language, you don't know the area, so they have to divert precious manpower and resources to babysit you. Why do you think that would be a good idea?

And for Japan, 1995 was not that far back.

And I was right. You are blinded by petty hatred.

 

[coolweb]

Quote from mschey:

Wrong answer there chief.....the state still controls everything. You have to obtain permission to travel to different towns, register locally to leave, when you arrive, and when you return.

You speak out, they send in a gang of troops to beat the hell out of you. They have invaded and conquered a foreign nation and displaced it's leadership which still remains in exile.

As one chinese guy noted in a recent interview, "you can have your own opinions, but you must still DO what the partys says!"

State owns a major stake in all business and investments made.

Outside investors can't invest in there markets, and the list goes on and on about all the different ways that china is not quite the place you dream it to be, However, I will not.

Please shutup now, don't talk about things you have no idea about ,
I'm currently living in china, Not a bit different then from living in NYC.


didn't trading teach you not to listen to the media? experience it for yourself, test it, quant it, then talk about it.


stop posting from your vivid imagination.

 

[flyingforget]

Quote from jficquette:

Grow them up so they can harvest organs from them.

that is the most ridiculous things I have heard

I am a Chinese

it is not so bad as you imagined

 

[mschey]

Quote from coolweb:

Please shutup now, don't talk about things you have no idea about ,
I'm currently living in china, Not a bit different then from living in NYC.


didn't trading teach you not to listen to the media? experience it for yourself, test it, quant it, then talk about it.


stop posting from your vivid imagination.

Yeh sure it is....tell you what, why don't you hold an anti communist protest and see what happens. Get a few of you buddies with you and see how long it takes for them to roll the tanks in and run you and your friends over!

Let's leave it at this, you love china, the geisha girls, maybe even geisha boys, I Don't!

 

[Tums]

Quote from mschey:
Yeh sure it is....tell you what, why don't you hold an anti communist protest and see what happens. Get a few of you buddies with you and see how long it takes for them to roll the tanks in and run you and your friends over!
Let's leave it at this, you love china, the geisha girls, maybe even geisha boys, I Don't!

I have been to NYC.
I have been to Shanghai.

I wish everybody who can afford it will make a visit to China. It will be an eye opener. No debate is necessary.






of course if you can't afford it , then no debate is necessary either.

 

[captain_trips]

Quote from james_bond_3rd:

In addition to paying out insurance policies. (link is in chinese)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2008-05/14/content_8171847.htm

Basically, they have 110,000 policies in the quake affected area. They have already received 150 claims so far and paid out 26. They will shoulder all orphans' living expenses until they are 18 years old.

That's one heck of a move.

this seems like a good move considering the number of people who are underinsured or not insured at all - quick action - good press

I know very little of Chinese culture as it relates to insurance - perhaps some ETers could shed some light on the subject:

Is insurance widely accepted in Chinese culture? (or relatively new phenomenon) I assume that most people in rural areas do not have insurance and probably would not put a high priority on purchasing it it even if they obtained extra disposable income.

does LFC provide all types of insurance (life, fire, car, flood, etc.)?

 

[brian_forex]

Quote from coolweb:

Please shutup now, don't talk about things you have no idea about ,
I'm currently living in china, Not a bit different then from living in NYC.


didn't trading teach you not to listen to the media? experience it for yourself, test it, quant it, then talk about it.


stop posting from your vivid imagination.

The quote about harvesting organs was just simple trolling. But if you think living in China is the same as living in NYC I have a little experiment for you: Go to Times Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. Then go Tiananmen Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. You will notice the difference in less than a minute.

 

[james_bond_3rd]

Quote from brian_forex:

The quote about harvesting organs was just simple trolling. But if you think living in China is the same as living in NYC I have a little experiment for you: Go to Times Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. Then go Tiananmen Square and hand out Falun Gong literature. You will notice the difference in less than a minute.

Falun Gong is viewed in China by the population similar to how David Koresh was viewed here. The persecution is real but the governments in both cases overreacted.

 

[Mercor]

The whole manufacturing complex of China is fixed

These companies produce goods and sell to US for less then a 5% margin. They make their money from VAT rebates of the raw materials, about 5-15%.

The raw materials market in turn operate the same way.

All these free market business survive on Bank of China checks issued by the goverment. Of course that means every detail of your finances and business has to be reported to the Goverment, including privite business.

Somewhere all this is being subsidized by the great Red OZ behind the curtain

 

[Mercor]

Quote from james_bond_3rd:



And for Japan, 1995 was not that far back.

And I was right. You are blinded by petty hatred.

The US never accepts very much Foriegn aid for diasters, occasionaly Jute sandbags from Bangledesh.

We do it because we have the means to handle most disasters, with lower death totals. Japan also

..The issue is China or Burma not asking for political reasons, and their willingness to incure larger then necessary death total because of it

In this case I beleive the Chinesse is opening up a little bit to aid